Something A Little Different

One of my goals this year is to improve my photography skills... I have a very nice camera but don't know how to use it other than the basic point and shoot!  So when one of my favourite bloggers Carly Robertson introduced a new photo challenge I decided to jump on board. You can find all the details of the challenge here. Carly takes the most beautiful photos and I am hoping to learn some tips from her.

The challenge is called 'Photo Friday Challenge', the idea being that each Friday (you actually have a week) you take a photo based on that weeks theme. Unfortunately for me, this first theme was a self portrait. Now, I know I am not alone in hating my photo being taken, but this was a real struggle to get anything that I felt remotely comfortable sharing... and I am sharing only to record my personal growth LOL. It has taken me 3 days and literally a 100 photos to get this.

I converted this to black and white in photoshop, (to hide some of the wrinkles), which I am hoping to learn more about too. I am hoping that Carly will tell us how she converted her picture because it is just dreamy. And a positive from all this struggle - I actually learnt how to use the self timer on my camera. Way to go me!

Cheers

Jay Gee